20 best-selling audiobook books like Basketball: A Love Story by Jackie MacMullan

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Basketball: A Love Story

By: Jackie MacMullan

4.18

Format: None pages, Audio CD

A sweeping and revelatory history of basketball, drawing upon hundreds of hours of interviews with …

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Cover of The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy by Bill Simmons

1. The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy

By: Bill Simmons

4.20

Format: 736 pages, Hardcover

There is only one writer on the planet who possesses enough basketball knowledge and passion to wri… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • history
  • basketball
"But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper."

-Bill Simmons, The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy

"If you don't agree with me, I have two words for you: shut the fuck up."

-Bill Simmons, The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy

Cover of Michael Jordan: The Life by Roland Lazenby

2. Michael Jordan: The Life

By: Roland Lazenby

4.31

Format: 720 pages, Hardcover

The definitive biography of a legendary athleteThe Shrug. The Shot. The Flu Game. Michael Jordan is… read more

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  • history
  • basketball
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Not a Game: The Incredible Rise and Unthinkable Fall of Allen Iverson by Kent Babb

3. Not a Game: The Incredible Rise and Unthinkable Fall of Allen Iverson

By: Kent Babb

3.90

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

“This is more than just great sports writing, this is writing at its best. Babb strips away the pub… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • basketball
  • audiobook

4. Boys Will Be Boys: The Glory Days and Party Nights of the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty

By: Jeff Pearlman

3.57

Format: None pages,

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5. Basketball (and Other Things): A Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated

By: Shea Serrano , Reggie Miller , Arturo Torres

3.11

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

#1 New York Timesbestseller Who is the greatest dunker of all time? Which version of the Michael Jo… read more

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6. The Breaks of the Game

By: David Halberstam

3.73

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

"Among the best books ever written on professional basketball." The Philadelphia Inquirer David Hal… read more

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7. Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s

By: Jeff Pearlman

3.78

Format: None pages, Hardcover

TheNew York Timesbestselling author of Sweetnessdelivers the first all-encompassing account of the … read more

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8. Dream Team: How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World and Changed the Game of Basketball Forever

By: Jack McCallum

4.00

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

They were the Beatles of basketball, the MercurySeven in sneakers. In Dream Team, acclaimed sports … read more

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9. A Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers

By: John Feinstein

4.08

Format: 288 pages,

"A Season on the Brink" chronicles the basketball season that John Feinstein spent following the In… read more

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10. Pacific Rims: Beermen Ballin' in Flip-Flops and the Philippines' Unlikely Love Affair with Basketball

By: Rafe Bartholomew

3.45

Format: 216 pages,

Welcome to the Philippines, where the men are five foot five, the everyman's Air Jordans are a pair… read more

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11. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments

By: Joe Posnanski

4.56

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

A masterful ode to the a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseball’s history, to m… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
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12. The Baseball 100

By: Joe Posnanski

4.74

Format: 869 pages, Hardcover

A magnum opus from acclaimed baseball writer Joe Posnanski, The Baseball 100 is an audacious, singu… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season by Rich Cohen

13. When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season

By: Rich Cohen

3.90

Format: 265 pages, Hardcover

The gritty, no-holds-barred account of the 1987 NBA season, a thrilling year of fierce battles and … read more

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  • history
  • basketball
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
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14. When the Game Was Ours

By: Larry Bird

4.23

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

From the moment these two players took the court on opposing sides, they engaged in a fierce physic… read more

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  • history
  • basketball
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

15. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • basketball
  • audiobook
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

Cover of The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson by Jeff Pearlman

16. The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson

By: Jeff Pearlman

4.20

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

By the New York Times bestselling author of Showtime—the source for HBO’s Winning Time—the definiti… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Mamba Mentality: How I Play by Kobe Bryant

17. The Mamba Mentality: How I Play

By: Kobe Bryant

4.26

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In the wake of his retirement from professional basketball, Kobe “The Black Mamba” Bryant has decid… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • basketball
"You have to work hard in the dark to shine in the light"

-Kobe Bryant, The Mamba Mentality: How I Play

"Good coaches tell you where the fish are, great coaches teach you how to find them."

-Kobe Bryant, The Mamba Mentality: How I Play

"If you want to be a better player, you have to prepare, prepare, and prepare some more."

-Kobe Bryant, The Mamba Mentality: How I Play

"If you really want to be great at something you have to truly care about it. If you want to be great in a particular area, you have to obsess over it."

-Kobe Bryant, The Mamba Mentality: How I Play

Cover of Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks by Chris  Herring

18. Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks

By: Chris Herring

4.30

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive history of the 1990s New York Knicks, illustrat… read more

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  • history
  • basketball
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty by Jeff Pearlman

19. Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty

By: Jeff Pearlman

4.28

Format: 426 pages, Hardcover

The story of the Lakers dynasty from 1996 through 2004, when Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal combi… read more

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  • history
  • basketball
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Barkley: A Biography by Timothy Bella

20. Barkley: A Biography

By: Timothy Bella

4.07

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

* A Good Morning America Buzz Book* *A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of 2022* The definitive biogra… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • basketball
  • audiobook
Cover of LeBron by Jeff Benedict

21. LeBron

By: Jeff Benedict

4.40

Format: None pages, Audiobook

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the #1 bestselling author of The Dynasty and Tiger Woods—the “defi… read more

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  • history
  • basketball
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World by Ryan Holiday

22. Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World

By: Ryan Holiday

4.21

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

In his New York Times bestselling book, Discipline Is Destiny, Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Giannis: The Improbable Rise of an NBA MVP by Mirin Fader

23. Giannis: The Improbable Rise of an NBA MVP

By: Mirin Fader

4.41

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Discover the story of one of the most transcendent players in NBA history–from his early life livin… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • basketball
  • audiobook
Cover of Sprawlball: A Visual Tour of the New Era of the NBA by Kirk Goldsberry

24. Sprawlball: A Visual Tour of the New Era of the NBA

By: Kirk Goldsberry

4.10

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the leading expert in the exploding field of basketball analytics, a stunning infographic deco… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • basketball
Cover of The Last Enforcer: Outrageous Stories From the Life and Times of One of the NBA's Fiercest Competitors by Charles Oakley

25. The Last Enforcer: Outrageous Stories From the Life and Times of One of the NBA's Fiercest Competitors

By: Charles Oakley

3.70

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In this “incredible read on some incredible days and nights in the old association” (Adrian Wojnaro… read more

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  • history
  • basketball
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius: What Game Designers, Economists, Ballet Choreographers, and Theoretical Astrophysicists Reveal About the Greatest Game on Earth by Nick  Greene

26. How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius: What Game Designers, Economists, Ballet Choreographers, and Theoretical Astrophysicists Reveal About the Greatest Game on Earth

By: Nick Greene

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, entertaining deconstruction of basketball, drawing on the expertise of board-game crea… read more

Similar categories in Nick Greene's How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius: What Game Designers, Economists, Ballet Choreographers, and Theoretical Astrophysicists Reveal About the Greatest Game on Earth book and Jackie MacMullan's Basketball: A Love Story

  • history
  • basketball
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Basketball: A Love Story by Jackie MacMullan

27. Basketball: A Love Story

By: Jackie MacMullan

4.18

Format: None pages, Audio CD

A sweeping and revelatory history of basketball, drawing upon hundreds of hours of interviews with … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • basketball
  • nonfiction
  • 21st century
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People by Tiya Miles

28. Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People

By: Tiya Miles

4.10

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award–winning author of All That She Carried, an intimate and revelatory rec… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Hoop Atlas: Mapping the Remarkable Transformation of the Modern NBA by Kirk Goldsberry

29. Hoop Atlas: Mapping the Remarkable Transformation of the Modern NBA

By: Kirk Goldsberry

4.28

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of  Sprawlball , Kirk Goldsberry returns with a visual feast of a book—equal… read more

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  • history
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • basketball
Cover of Out of the Darkness: The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers by Ian O'Connor

30. Out of the Darkness: The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers

By: Ian O'Connor

3.85

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Aaron Rodgers is regarded by some as the most talented player to ever hold the most important job i… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of God and Starbucks: An NBA Superstar's Journey Through Addiction and Recovery by Vin Baker

31. God and Starbucks: An NBA Superstar's Journey Through Addiction and Recovery

By: Vin Baker

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing memoir of redemption—the moving story of a former top NBA player who miraculously re… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • basketball
  • audiobook

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4.56

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